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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
A football field is 57,600 sq ft. Amazon needs 8,000,000 sq ft on the new campus.
West village is 6 million square feet.
They would basically have to level half of sunalta to fit it in, in addition to all of the west village. Assuming the campus needs to be all in one place.
Growing vertical though, that's a different story.
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Campuses can definitely be vertical. I think there's a misnomer of what a 'campus' is based on the physical manifestation of universities and colleges that didn't have a need to build vertically past 5-6 floors, max. This, however, is a increasingly outdated design principle.
Here's an article from HOK, a world-renowned design firm, that explains the trend towards vertical campuses:
http://www.hok.com/about/news/2017/0...porate-campus/
On the flip side, several well-known Silicon Valley brands (Salesforce, LinkedIn, Twitter and Airbnb) recently have bucked the suburban-campus trend and done the “once unthinkable” for tech giants. They’ve moved their headquarters into vertical downtown offices or converted industrial buildings centrally located near public transit. Unlike suburban campuses that reinforce an insular and secretive workplace culture, these more accessible urban campuses support the principles of agglomeration, the theory that innovation occurs faster in dense environments in which workers, suppliers, funders and partners are co-located for collaboration.